“Keeping the Faith or Not Keeping the Faith? is the Question in a Western Secular Society

Islam in the Western world has been one of the fastest and largest growing religions. However, many Muslims, including myself, have found it difficult to balance the lifestyles between following the path of Islam or straying away from the path. It was not easy for me to be a Muslim growing up in a small Midwest city during my childhood. Even though my parents taught me Islam well it was not the same without any Muslim my age except my sister and brother. After high school and moving to Macalester College, I thought I would be surrounded by a large Muslim community; but this was not the case. Since coming to college I have begun to question if I can keep my faith in a Western world. Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim scholar from Europe, believes that a Muslim can keep his faith in the Western world. On the contrary, there are many apostates, Muslims who deviated from Islam and never came back, believe Islam is not function with the Western lifestyle. This essay explores the torn feelings that many Muslims in the Western world feel daily with their faith in Islam and the Western lifestyle

Wittgenstein’s and islamic concept of religious belief

This paper is divided into two sections. In the first section I discuss the concept of religious beliefs according to Wittgenstein and Islam. In the second section of the paper I discuss the points of similarity between Islamic and Wittgenstein’s concepts of religious beliefs.Dr. Aamir Riyaz, Assistant Professor, Hans Raj College, Delhi University, IndiaHans Raj College, Delhi UniversityAl-Bukhari, Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Trans.), Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 1987.C. Barrett, Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief, Blackwell, 1991.N. Malcolm, Wittgenstein: A Religious point of View? London: Routledge, 1993.Mohd. Iqbal, Kulyat-e-Iqbal, Educational Publishing House, Delhi, 2005.Sahih Muslim, Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (trans.), Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi, 2000, Vol. 1; Ch. 2; H. 6.R. Rush (ed.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollection, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981.Vohra, Ashok, JICPR, Vol. XXIV.L. Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1953.L.Wittgenstein, On Certainty, ed. by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, translated by Dennis Paul and G.E.M. Amscombe, NewYork and Evanston: J. & J. Harper Edition, 1968.L. Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. C. Barrett, Oxford: Blackwell, 1969.361-3722736137

Cloud Service ranking using Checkpoint based Load balancing in real time scheduling of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been gaining popularity in the recent years. Several studies are being proceeded to build cloud applications with exquisite quality based on users demands. In achieving the same, one of the applied criteria is checkpoint based load balancing in real time scheduling through which suitable cloud service is chosen from a group of cloud services candidates. Valuable information can be collected to rank the services within this checkpoint based load balancing. In order to attain ranking, different services are needed to be invoked in the cloud, which is time consuming and wastage of services invocation. To avoid the same, this chapter proposes an algorithm for predicting the ranks of different cloud services by using the values from previously offered services

Fault Localization Models in Debugging

Debugging is considered as a rigorous but important feature of software engineering process. Since more than a decade, the software engineering research community is exploring different techniques for removal of faults from programs but it is quite difficult to overcome all the faults of software programs. Thus, it is still remains as a real challenge for software debugging and maintenance community. In this paper, we briefly introduced software anomalies and faults classification and then explained different fault localization models using theory of diagnosis. Furthermore, we compared and contrasted between value based and dependencies based models in accordance with different real misbehaviours and presented some insight information for the debugging process. Moreover, we discussed the results of both models and manifested the shortcomings as well as advantages of these models in terms of debugging and maintenance.Comment: 58-6

An enhanced Multipath Strategy in Mobile Ad hoc Routing Protocols

The various routing protocols in Mobile Ad hoc Networks follow different strategies to send the information from one node to another. The nodes in the network are non static and they move randomly and are prone to link failure which makes always to find new routes to the destination. This research mainly focused on the study of the characteristics of multipath routing protocols in MANETS. Two of the multipath routing protocols were investigated and a comparative study along with simulation using NS2 was done between DSR and AODV to propose an enhanced approach to reach the destination maintaining the QoS. A possible optimization to the DSR and AODV routing protocols was proposed to make no node to be overburdened by distributing the load after finding the alternate multipath routes which were discovered in the Route discovery process. The simulation shows that the differences in the protocol highlighted major differences with the protocol performance. These differences have been analyzed with various network size, mobility, and network load. A new search table named Search of Next Node Enquiry Table (SONNET) was proposed to find the best neighbor node. Using SONNET the node selects the neighbor which can be reached in less number of hops and with less time delay and maintaining the QoS